Psycho slug killers, touts and comfort-eating excuses | UK Information

Is it extreme to name the BBC Breakfast’s atmosphere correspondent a psychopath for a way he stops slugs from devouring his vegetation?

Admittedly, not good to consider, one MetroTalk reader questions if the general public response is overblown. Or, maybe he ought to have saved his ugly methodology of pest management to himself?

In the meantime, readers weigh in on the weight problems epidemic; pondering if we should always take accountability for our widening waistlines. Completely punctual trains immediate disbelief, ticket touts get their simply desserts and racegoers can’t discover a bathroom.

Share what you concentrate on these matters within the feedback.

Good on ya Ed

Thanks, Ed Sheeran for talking out towards grasping ticket touts after a household of 4 super-touts was convicted of ripping off music followers for £6.5million (Metro, Thu). I hope the net platforms on which TQ Tickets resold their tickets are going to refund their fee or donate it to charity or going to make use of these proceeds to seek out methods to cut back ticket touting. Eddy, Enfield

Is being overweight a alternative?

Zoe (MetroTalk, Thu) says the cost-of-living disaster is making folks consolation eat, which is resulting in the weight problems disaster. That’s the difficulty these days – folks don’t have any accountability for placing garbage of their mouth and doing no train.

They blame consolation consuming on the present disaster or emotional causes.

Everybody goes by means of the identical disaster, however not everybody is popping to overeating. I say this as an overweight particular person. I’m fats as a result of I selected to eat garbage. Being overweight is a alternative and is unhealthy, regardless of what the present physique positivity motion says. Matt, Sheffield

Sorry prematurely for the pedantry however the textual content accompanying your photograph (Metro, Fri) of the provider strike group collaborating within the Nordic Struggle Video games train contained a mistake. The caption for a photograph of a formation of eight plane described six F-18s and two JAS-39s, whereas it ought to have learn the opposite method spherical. Roy, London

Prepare on time? Should be one other dimension

I get the 7.08am Southern service from Polegate to Gatwick Airport most mornings and the return 4.56pm most evenings. I’d wish to ask the readers if there’s an astrophysicist or somebody of the like who wish to research me?

I solely ask as a result of, for the previous week, the practice hasn’t been late as soon as. Clearly sooner or later I’ve managed to seek out the artwork of leaping between these supposed parallel universes that exist – I positively don’t reside within the previous one as a result of the trains there have been often cancelled or delayed. Vince, Polegate.

Nicely executed to your columnist, Kate Mason (MetroSport, Thu), for suggesting those that criticise skilled sportsmen/girls ought to look of their mirrors. The opponents are folks doing a job, having good and unhealthy, completely satisfied and unhappy instances of their lives, as can we all. It’s tough sufficient dropping with out getting flak from ‘supporters’. Hazel Murgatroyd, Huddersfield

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